Promoting Welsh Industry

The Abergavenny eisteddfodau are so interesting. Other medals in the collection show how the woollen industry was being promoted, how attention was drawn, even, to industrial south Wales, where the iron works and the coal pits were, of course, drawing more and more people into the area. Take that, together with the eisteddfodau's appeal to the bigwigs, and to those Celtic scholars who were willing to come over to Abergavenny from Germany, and you'll see what an exciting period the Abergavenny chapter is in the history of the Eisteddfod.

In AD 75, the Romans built a fortress at Caerleon that would guard the region for over 200 years. Today at the National Roman Legion Museum you can learn what made the Romans a formidable force and how life wouldn't be the same without them.